Oculus Is Trying To Fix Rifts After Software Bug

Oculus is investigating an issue keeping people from enjoying their Oculus Rifts.

The Oculus subreddit is plastered with complaints, temporary fixes and warnings about those fixes. According to a post on the official Oculus forums:

We are aware of and actively investigating an issue impacting ability to access Rift software. Our teams apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing you and appreciate your patience while we work on a resolution. We’ll share more updates here as we have them. Thanks.

Oculus provided the following update on Twitter:

Quick update: We’re still actively working on an issue with our software certification. We’re looking at a few different ways to resolve the issue and will share updates. We recommend you wait until we provide an official fix. Thanks for your patience. https://t.co/9F6hz3tcfI

We’re still working hard to resolve the issue & are in the process of integrating an updated cert. This has some added complexity, as the expired cert blocks our standard update path. We’re working through options & expect to have more details tonight. https://t.co/9F6hz3tcfI

This is one of those “solutions” that will work fine and work fine until it doesn’t. For a lot of people, there might not be any side effects, but it’s tough to predict. You could lose activations of software, roll back updates in Windows: I know I sound like Y2K paranoia right now, but screwing with the system time can really mess things up in ways you may not anticipate. My advice: ride it out. Oculus is a large company, this is too big to ignore, and the longer this goes on, the better the mea culpa will be. I got, like, fifty bucks worth of free games from PlayStation when they screwed up the PlayStation Network. Just sayin…